UGMK Museum of Automotive Technology

About museum

UGMK Museum of Automotive Technology is the largest collection of vintage cars, motorcycles and bicycles in Russia. The four-story building presents a 130-year history of automotive transport in Russia and worldwide. The museum's collection is unique: it includes more than 500 Soviet and foreign vintage cars, motorcycles, bicycles and other vehicles. The first floor is devoted to cars from the late 19th to the early 20th century: visitors are greeted by a replica of Karl Benz's very first automobile. Also on display are American cars from the turn of the 1920s–1930s — the golden age of automotive engineering and design — such as the Cadillac V-12, Packard, Pierce-Arrow, Auburn and others. The museum's second and third floors are dedicated to the history of domestic automobile manufacturing, from the first mass-produced GAZ models of the early 1930s up to the end of the 20th century. A central place is given to luxury-class vehicles. In four zones are displayed the cars that served the leadership of the USSR from the 1930s to the early 1990s, including armored state cars, escort vehicles and motorcycles of the government motorcade. The fourth-floor exhibition is devoted to motorcycles and sporting machinery: it features a collection of early 20th-century motorcycles, including Harley-Davidson and Indian, the first production four-cylinder motorcycle FN Four and other models. The sports section presents motorcycles for various types of competitions, Soviet racing cars 'Estonia' and other equipment.